Hi, I uploaded a new beta. The most prominent changes are that the frames macro, mp graphics, and scaling code has been cleaned up, sped up and namespaced. of course some bug can have crept in. Don't expect wonders with respect to speedup although it can make some difference when multiple backgrounds, of large natural/extreme tables are used. Of course raw output of pages (as with \dorecurse{1000}{test\page}) is not really a good measure but at last the overhead gets more and more minimized which is also good for tracing. This version might also solve some of the reported problems with page imposition (as the page-* modules are being cleaned up buglets cna be introduced .. nothing really changes there apart from speedup and namespacing). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------